Kenapa tak guna perkataan ‘Allah’ dalam versi Mandarin or Tamil or English? It doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure that out. A person has got to be deaf, dumb, blind or all three to not know what the motive behind this is or is simply lying to himself or lying to others.

The issue is simple. The demand by the Catholic Church is to continue using the word Allah in the Malay version of the weekly newspaper, Herald. This paper is published in 4 languages, i.e. Malay, Mandarin, Tamil and English. The other 3 versions use a different word to denote God in their respective language and there is no issue at all. The contentious one is the Malay version. Moreover, is it not suitable to use the word Allah in Mandarin, Tamil and English versions as the word is not generic term for God in these languages. But Allah is the Arabic generic term to denote God whether the God is Islamic God or Christian God. Same like the word Smartphone. It could be Apple, Samsung, HTC etc.

Dear Helen, to all Muslims, there is no other god but Allah subhanahuawa taala . To all non-Muslims, like Christians, that would be 3-in-1 aka. the trinity concept, the holy union of Jesus, Holy Ghost and Holy Father, am I right?

Trying to tell people nowadays that the word “ALLAH” and god have the same meaning to the believers of both religions is very, very irresponsible and damaging.

After all, the only way francis Xavier and the rest of the Christian missionaries could reach out to the Muslim Malayu in Malacca right after the conquest of Malacca by the Portuguese is by “fine-tuning” the words of Jesus, Holy Ghost and Holy Father and “repackaged” them into the word “ALLAH” which was easily accessible and understood the Malayu people of that time. So, for whatever reasons, their wish to use ALLAH in the Bible just doesn’t cut it with me.